Developing and Enhancing Partnerships through Continuous Improvement

EVENT: Interphex 2010              LOCATION: New York, NY, Javits Convention Center DATE: April 20 to 22, 2010 PRESENTER: Scott Jenkins, Business Unit Manager, Abbott Chicago, United States ABSTRACT: Developing and Enhancing Partnerships through Continuous Improvement

Continuous Improvement is a key strategy for competitiveness in today’s global pharmaceutical market. Implementing strategic initiatives that focus on cost, compliance and customer service can set an operation apart from the rest and ultimately lead to developing new partnerships and enhancing existing partnerships to ensure a stable pipeline for success.

This presentation will focus on delivering high quality pharmaceutical products at market-competitive cost by implementing best-in-class practices in the areas of:

• Value and operational benefits of Oliver Wight, Class A Certification
• Manufacturing benefits in establishing strategic business road map
• High gain manufacturing continuous improvement initiatives:
      – Quote process
      – New Product Introduction Process
      – Six Sigma project successes
      – Visual Management
      – Total Productive Maintenance Program
      – 5S (Sift, Sort, Sanitize, Standardize, Sustain)
      – Kaizen and Root Cause Problem Solve Culture

Implementation of many of these practices will improve the cost, compliance and customer service in contract manufacturing organizations.

This session will include process maps, photos and practical examples that will help provide insight of best-in-class practices that can be applied to a contract manufacturing organization. The session will also provide real examples of efficiency data when the following continuous improvement methodologies are applied in the areas of: Kaizen Blitz’s, Six Sigma Project savings, Quote process improvements and Total Productive Maintenance Program.